Robert Olen Butler
Autor(a) de A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
About the Author
Robert Olen Butler is a novelist, screenwriter, educator, and short-story writer who grew up in Granite City, Illinois. Butler served in Vietnam. Following the Vietnam War, Butler began writing. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Paris Review, and The Saturday Review, as well mostrar mais as in four annual editions of the Best American Short Stories and six annual editions of New Stories of the South. A collection of his stories, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Butler's novels include The Alleys of Eden, Countrymen of Bones, and Sun Dogs. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Butler also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches creative writing at McNeese State University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Author Robert Olen Butler at the 2016 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53477339
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Obras de Robert Olen Butler
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Fiction of Robert Olen Butler: A Reader’s Guide, The 1 exemplar(es)
Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover (short story) 1 exemplar(es)
JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction 1 exemplar(es)
Coyote (in The Lifted Brow 4 - SCOTT) 1 exemplar(es)
Three Pieces of Severance (in McSweeney's 14 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuinte — 511 cópias
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Contribuinte — 400 cópias
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuinte — 346 cópias
In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016) — Contribuinte — 242 cópias
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Contribuinte — 40 cópias
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers (2003) — Contribuinte — 34 cópias
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Butler, Robert Olen
- Data de nascimento
- 1945-01-20
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Granite City, Illinois, USA
- Locais de residência
- Granite City, Illinois, USA
- Educação
- Northwestern University (BS, Theater, 1967)
University of Iowa (MA, Playwriting, 1969) - Ocupação
- steel mill laborer
taxi driver
substitute teacher in high schools
staff writer (Fairchild Publications)
editor-in-chief (Fairchild's Energy User News)
creative writing teacher (McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA) - Relacionamentos
- Dewberry, Elizabeth (wife|divorced)
- Organizações
- United States Army (counter-intelligence special agent ∙ translator)
Army Military Intelligence Corps (sergeant) - Premiações
- Guggenheim Fellowship (Fiction, 1993)
Rosenthal Foundation Award
Tu Do Chinh Kien Award (Vietnam Veterans of America ∙ outstanding contributions to American culture by a veteran)
National Magazine Award (2001 ∙ 2005)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship - Pequena biografia
- Robert Olen Butler was married and divorced four times.
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